gang
gang Lexical Profile
gang Game Scores & Validity
• noun
An organized group of criminals or young people who claim control over a territory and engage in unlawful or antisocial activities.
"Community outreach programs have helped steer local teenagers away from joining a street gang."
An informal group of friends or associates who regularly spend time together.
"The whole gang met at the diner after the concert to catch up."
An organized group of manual laborers who work together as a team on a specific industrial or construction task.
"A maintenance gang spent the weekend repairing the damaged railway tracks."
A set of mechanical tools, electrical switches, or instruments arranged to operate simultaneously via a single control.
"The carpenter adjusted the gang of rotary saws to cut six planks at once."
• verb
To join together as a group in order to act collectively, often against a single person or rival (usually followed by 'up').
"The other board members ganged up on the director during the budget debate."
To arrange or connect mechanical tools, electrical devices, or circuits so that they operate together simultaneously.
"The audio engineer ganged the two channels together to control the stereo volume with a single fader."
Scottish To go, walk, or travel.
"The old shepherd bade them gang warily along the steep mountain path."
• Rhymes for gang
Word Origin & Etymology
From Old English gang and reinforced by Old Norse gangr, meaning 'a going, journey, or way.' The sense evolved from a set of articles carried on a journey to a group of workmen or travelers going together, and later to an organized band of criminals.